FROGGS made IO.d, IO.s and IO.z (checks for files being a folder, what size they have, and being empty respectively) about 40% faster

FROGGS also made Path::contains about 25% faster on JVM.

jnthn made binds to attributes in signatures (i.e. method foo($!bar)) take the fast path in the binder.

same thing for re-names in signatures

jnthn added more optimizations, that ended up making Path::contents much faster.

jnthn also tweaked the signature of “match” to go through the fast path in the binder.

the .comb method, when called without arguments, is also faster now, thanks to jnthn.

Junctions now work a bit faster as well. Another change by jnthn.

lizmat made say and note a bit faster.

There’s another big optimization done by jnthn that turns for loops that iterate over ranges into much simpler while loops. This change makes these loops as fast as the equivalent while (or loop) loop, but it’s still nice to look at.

Other than that, the recordings from the NLPW2014 are up on youtube. I’ve enjoyed jnthn’s talk about reactive programming a whole lot. Other than that, I haven’t yet spent much time watching these recordings.